Real-Time Screen Generation for Adaptive Athlete Score Estimation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional scoring systems fail to provide estimated scores for planned performances and real-time adjustments when athletes deviate from pre-planned routines during events scored by judges.

Innovation Solution

A system utilizing a 3D laser sensor, camera, and element recognition device to analyze athlete movements, generating real-time estimated scores by comparing actual and planned performance data, updating scores as the performance progresses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional motion analysis systems are used to estimate scores, then scores can be estimated for fixed routines, but the system cannot provide accurate scores when athletes change their routines during performance

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescore estimation accuracyVSAvoidroutine flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically updates the estimated score in real-time as the performance progresses and as the athlete's actual routine deviates from the planned routine. The score display transitions from a static pre-performance estimate to a dynamic during-performance estimate that adapts to actual movements detected by the motion analysis system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides continuous feedback by comparing the athlete's actual performance elements with the planned routine elements. When deviations are detected through motion analysis, the system recalculates and updates the estimated score, providing real-time feedback that reflects the current performance state rather than relying solely on pre-performance assumptions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If the system provides detailed real-time score updates, then viewer engagement improves, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelive scoring capabilityVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The motion analysis system serves multiple functions: it detects athlete movements, identifies performance elements, compares them with planned routines, calculates scores, and provides real-time feedback. By making the system multi-functional, the patent avoids needing separate systems for each task, thereby managing complexity while delivering comprehensive live scoring capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis by establishing the planned routine and expected score before performance begins. This pre-computation of the baseline routine allows the during-performance analysis to focus only on detecting deviations from this known pattern, simplifying the real-time processing requirements while enabling detailed score updates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3744408B1Screen generation program, screen generation method and information processing device
Publication Date: 2025.10.29 FUJITSU LTD
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus 100 acquires, when an actual performance by an athlete is started, an element that has already been performed and a score of the element that has already been performed in the actual performance, based on data acquired in real time. The information processing apparatus 100 estimates an element with a high probability of being performed hereafter in the actual performance, based on at least one of the planned performance information and the data. The information processing apparatus 100 estimates an estimated score of the actual performance being performed, based on the score of the element that has already been performed and an estimated score in the case in which estimated elements that have not been performed succeed, and generates screen information to display the estimated score of planned performance and the estimated score of the actual performance.